New slideshow template. Black background. Keeps in the same window. Spent time with the photo editors to learn how they wanted to present images.

An exception:

The designer and editor went to extra length to develop custom layouts for the 5th anniversary of 9/11

Pluses and minuses

Highly specific

This is what we should be doing

Time consuming
...

Elections:

special projects with sufficient lead time.

News design tomorrow
One day we will be able to design in real time.
there will be a new kind of publishing that will be more mature than what we have today.

NYTimes is no-longer just a platform for delivery of news. We want to be a platform for new-centric activity involving communities.

Trad media uses narrative design which is judged by how well it tells a story.

The web is about conversational interactions.

online we're trying to work out where we fit in a many to many relationship.

Part of this shift means we are looking towards providing new mechanisms for consumption.

We're building discrete apps to supplement the experience.

MyTimes
TimesFile
Times Topics
Times Reader

TimesFile

A revision of our web-based bookmarking app.

Our content is evolving into functionality.

e.g: inline audio streams.
Content that accompanies the articles.
Video on the home page in the library and on articles
One-click access to Digg Newsvine etc as well as blogger friendly permalinks. Articles now last for several years.

This is all consistent with a SEO driven world.

A new paradigm.

As our tools progress, they give us incrementally more power to control the presentation of out interfaces.